{"id":802205,"date":"2026-08-04T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802205\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:54:10","slug":"hafley-ollie-gordon-can-be-every-down-rb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802205\/","title":{"rendered":"Hafley: Ollie Gordon can be every-down RB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Asked if the big-bodied Gordon would function as a short-yardage banger in 2026, Hafley said he would rather see Gordon \u201ccompete\u201d to be an \u201cevery-down back.\u201d \u201cI think he\u2019s capable of doing it,\u201d Hafley added. \u201cOllie has flashed and knows what he\u2019s doing. He has great speed, he has great size, and he can catch the ball out of the backfield too.\u201d Hafley also complimented Gordon\u2019s pass blocking. Gordon is coming off a disastrous rookie campaign in which he totaled 199 yards and three touchdowns on 70 carries, good for 2.8 yards per rush. Gordon ranked 56th out of 65 qualifying backs in rushing success rate last year. He ranked 58th in missed tackles forced per rush. Gordon, an extremely productive college rusher, will compete with Jaylen Wright for RB2 duties behind De\u2019Von Achane this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked if the big-bodied Gordon would function as a short-yardage banger in 2026, Hafley said he would rather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-802205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}